Apple tweaks App Store layout amid developer unrest — Faced with criticism over the way it's been grouping applications on the digital shelves of the App Store, Apple this week is making some changes to the store's layout aimed at showcasing a broader range of top offerings in each category.

Your New Agreement With Google, Chrome Users — When Google released its browser called Chrome this fall, there was an unusually loud controversy about its End User Licensing Agreement (EULA). The company responded quickly to those complaints. — Now the contract with users has been changed again …

Sony's First Touchscreen Walkman Revealed — Sony is set to debut a new 16 and 32GB drag and drop Walkman during CES 2009, according to trusted inside sources. This will be the most advanced music, video and photo Walkman music player ever released by Sony to date.

Andy Grove urges Intel to build car batteries — Intel CEO Andy Grove has joined other Silicon Valley elites who are advocating for an industry shift into energy technology. — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday, Grove said he is urging Intel to invest …

Apple iPod Touch, New MacBook Selling Like Crazy (AAPL) — Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber is one of the best-sourced Apple (AAPL) writers on the planet. So when he declares something, we listen. And he seems to be carrying good news for Apple, whose rivals in the PC industry aren't having the best year.

iPod Touch Gaming Ad Shakes Things Up — Adage points to a major new ad campaign from Apple which is currently running on http://games.yahoo.com/. Apple's latest web ad goes outside the usual bounds of traditional banner ads by affecting other portions of Yahoo's page (the ad must be initiated by the visitor).

Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture — Cloud computing isn't going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there's a race to deliver …

How to fix Windows Mobile — This is an interesting if misguided article and, coincidentally, I met with the Windows Mobile folks just this week, so it's good timing as well: … Yep. This is bad. Microsoft is working on a number of things before that major update, Windows Mobile 7.

Library Releases Report on Flickr Pilot — In January, the Library embarked on something that took the online community by storm. In conjunction with Flickr, we loaded a few thousand images from the Library of Congress' vast collections and asked the user community to get involved …

Big revamp for Alcatel-Lucent, with Web 2.0 spin — Alcatel-Lucent on Friday announced a significant restructuring, including layoffs, as it tries to position itself for a post-recession future flavored with new technologies. — For both 2009 and 2010, the Paris-based telecommunications …

November game market a bloodbath — Nintendo's Wii may have run away with the U.S. console hardware market for November, but two titles for Microsoft's Xbox 360 were solidly atop the NPD Group's rankings of video-game sales for the month. Yet Microsoft won't exactly be citing these results …

Advertising in Applications — Few things elicit the visceral reaction that advertising inserted in applications does. Just the mere mention of the word brings out a stream of critics who decry the intrusion that ads impose on usability and express dismay at the treasonous behavior of the developers and companies in question.

Do Brands Belong on Twitter? — Dr. Mark Drapeau is a biological scientist, government consultant, and regular contributor to Mashable.com and other venues. — Behind every Twitter account is a person. But some of these people ‘hide’ behind organizational brands, obscuring their persona …

V is for this user's vendetta against Facebook — Everyone knows you on Facebook. The problem is, Facebook doesn't know you. — At least that was V Addeman's problem when he tried to sign up for the social networking site. — Recently laid off as a category analyst for convenience stores …

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